By Emily Keller

latitude 55

Latitude 55 to aid in development of hand sanitizer during pandemic

Mar 20, 2020 | 2:24 PM

Another local distillery is partnering with the Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Partnership (GPREP) to start making and distributing hand sanitizer.

Latitude 55 Distillery, along with Broken Oak Distillery, will be working to develop the sanitizer, which has been hard to come by in recent weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dennis Warren, VP of Operations and Sales for Latitude 55, says they were approached by Mike Anderson from GPREP, and have been doing research on what goes into this process.

“It’s simple, from a making perspective, it’s not really technical. Where the hand sanitizer, and quality of it comes into play, is how high (of a) per cent of alcohol you have in it. So, minimum, it will need to have seventy per cent alcohol to help start killing everything, and we are going to do our best to go at minimum there, or higher.”

Warren says as of now, they are gathering supplies and ingredients.

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“We’re looking for everything you can think of, because this is fresh, it’s about a week old, and we’ve been trying to understand the necessity and the demand. With Mike reaching out, there’s an enormous demand. I know from a Latitude perspective, I want to support the Grande Prairie and the Peace Region first, and if we have the ability to support other areas, we will.”

He adds that during the COVID-19 pandemic, he is glad they have the opportunity to support the region.